What to watch: Week 7 college football viewing guide

It’ll be nearly impossible for Week 7 to come close to Week 6.

Just last weekend, four top-10 teams lost on the road. No. 1 Alabama lost at Vanderbilt, No. 4 Tennessee fell at Arkansas, No. 9 Missouri was blown out at No. 25 Texas A&M and No. 10 Michigan lost its national title game rematch at Washington.

We’re going to go out on a limb and say that four top-10 teams won’t lose this Saturday, but that doesn’t mean Week 7 is setting up to be lackluster. It features the season’s first matchup of teams ranked in the top three, and the No. 1 team in the country is playing in a famed neutral site rivalry game. The day should be feisty.

Here are the five games we’re most looking forward to in Week 7. All times are Eastern and all odds are from BetMGM.

Time: 3:30 p.m. | TV: ABC | Line: Texas -14.5 | Total: 50.5

Both teams enter their Cotton Bowl rivalry game off bye weeks. The Longhorns moved to the top spot in the AP Top 25 after Alabama’s loss and Quinn Ewers looks set to regain his spot back in the starting lineup. Ewers has been sidelined since he left the Longhorns’ Week 3 game with a strained abdomen. He was replaced in the starting lineup by backup QB Arch Manning.

Ewers was very good before he was injured. He had completed 58-of-73 passes for 691 yards and threw eight TDs to two interceptions. He’d also taken just one sack. Though Manning played well in relief of Ewers, it’s not much of a controversy that the senior is getting his spot back.

Oklahoma, meanwhile, will start true freshman Michael Hawkins for the second straight game. He got his first career start at Auburn after taking over for Jackson Arnold against Tennessee. Hawkins has thrown 65 fewer passes than Arnold has this season, but he’s completing a greater percentage of his throws and is averaging over three more yards per attempt than…

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Publish date : 2024-10-10 13:00:57

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